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Glenn Beck: 'We're Racist' If Trump Doesn't Fire Bannon

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck warned against Steve Bannon, the newly appointed chief of staff for President-elect Donald Trump, for being a pivotal part of the "alt-right," which critics describe as a racist political movement.

According to Right Wing Watch, Beck's view of Bannon is really extreme:

If you know Steve Bannon’s agenda and his vision of America, it’s not pretty. When people really understand what the alt-right is, this neo-nationalist, neo-Nazi, white supremacy idea that Bannon is pushing hard; I hope they wake up because, if not, we are racist. If that’s what we accept and we know it, then we are racist. I contend people don’t know what the alt-right is yet.

"The alt-right supports the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants and protectionist trade policies. It opposes feminism, diversity, gay rights, globalism, gun control and civil rights," wrote Thomas J. Main, a professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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Bannon, who headed Trump's campaign during the 2016 presidential election, was the former president of Breitbart.com, a website that publishes news stories with a far-right and sometimes racist angle that is seen as a platform for the alt-right.